Christopher Volpe ~ Exhibitions

Exhibitions

	Home Paintings Galleries Exhibitions About Contact	"I was touched by Chris Volpe's shadowy landscapes. The delicate balance between forms and light are there at the edge of dawns and dusks, and he finds eloquent, painterly ways to bring a canvas to that point in time. These go past the point of mere representation, using the medium to whisper in black and punctuate in the warmer hues of light." - Ann Bryant, Art Reviewer for the Portsmouth Herald

	Solo Gallery Show The artist's first solo show will open at Kennedy Gallery and Framing in Portsmouth, NH on August 7 with a wine and cheese reception from 4-7 p.m. The exhibition, featuring a cross section of representational oil paintings from mid-size landscapes to small still life works, will hang for the duration of the month of August. The gallery is located at 41 Market Street and may be reached at (603) 436-7007. Select works from the show will be on display at Portsmouth's South Church for two months prior to the opening at Kennedy. * York Village Summer Showcase at The Rowan Tree Cafe For the duration of the summer, a changing exhibit of 10 smaller and mid-sized works will be displayed for sale at The Rowan Tree at 21 York Street, York Village, Maine from June 1 to September 30, 2009. Stop by and enjoy the great food and a friendly atmosphere. They may be reached at (207) 363-2035 or by email. * Solo Preview at South Church Gallery A selection of the paintings that will be offered for sale at the Kennedy Gallery Portsmouth solo show will be on display throughout June and July 2009 at the Unitarian Universalist church (South Church) in Portsmouth, NH. This is a joint show with the artist's wife, artist Anna Birch, who is showing framed original art. * Beacon Hill Art Walk On the first Sunday of June every year, residents open up their private gardens, alleyways, and courtyards and allow artists to display and sell their artwork. * 100 Market Street Summer Show This is the annual showcase for emerging Seacoast artists curated each year by arts maven Jeanne McCartin. A number of works will be on display for the month of July. * 39th Annual Saco Spirit Sidewalk Arts Festival (June 27) * 13th Annual Amherst Art Show on the Green (July 4) * ellO Gallery group show "Postcards from the Edge" (August) * * * Old News SPRING OPEN STUDIOS! New work will be on display and for sale at the Salmon Falls' Mills open studio day on May 9, 2009. Next open studio is in Novermber. * Our friends at the UK-based Cloud Appreciation Society (13,000+ cloudspotters strong!) have added pics of several Volpe cloudscapes to the cloud art portion of their Website. The Website is worth poking around on a bit. From their homepage: "At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them. Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking.’ Recommended! * Afternoon/Evening Thunderstorms will be on display until December 5, 2008 as part of the juried UNH staff show In the Company of Artists, which opened on September 26 in the Dimond Library's museum on the building's first floor. * Group show of works inaugurating the new gallery space at the Rollinsford Public Library at the Salmon Falls Mill in Rollinsford, N.H. A changing roster of five or so landscapes will be shown for sale throughout the summer of 2008. * As always, please feel free to contact Christopher for a private studio showing at the Salmon Falls artist studios in Rollinsford, N.H.